Gravitational Waves
This working group has a particular focus on Gravitational Wave Science enabled by stand-alone SKA surveys (for example of galaxy clusters) or working in conjunction with GW interferometers in both a direct cross-correlation and a more synergistic mode.
Gravitational Waves Working Group Membership
Members of the Gravitational Waves Working group can be found in the table below.
We actively encourage interested researchers to participate in the working group.
If you are interested in joining the group, please complete this form.
The current co-chairs are:
- Nicola Bellomo (University of Padova, Italy), nicola.bellomo AT unipd.it
- Philippa Cole (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), philippa.cole AT unimib.it
Guidelines on who can join the group can be found here.
The SKAO Project Scientist liaison is Philippa Hartley (contact details here).
Previous Chairs
- Samaya Nissanke (2019-2024)
- Alvise Raccanelli (2019-2024)
| Name | Institution | Country | Membership Type |
| Nicola Bellomo | University of Padova | Italy | co-chair (nicola.bellomo@unipd.it) |
| Philippa Cole | University of Milano-Bicocca | Italy | co-chair (philippa.cole@unimib.it) |
| Andrea Addazi | Fudan University | China | associate |
| Edoardo Altamura | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester | UK | associate |
| Tao An | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | China | associate |
| Gemma Anderson | ICRAR-Curtin | Australia | associate |
| David Bacon | University of Portsmouth | UK | associate |
| Nicola Bartolo | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| José Luis Bernal | Johns Hopkins University | USA | associate |
| Reginald Christian Bernardo | APCTP | Korea | associate |
| Daniele Bertacca | Padua University | Italy | associate |
| Debadri Bhattacharjee | Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University | India | associate |
| Kimberly Boddy | Johns Hopkins University | USA | associate |
| Michele Bosi | University of Trento / SISSA | Italy | associate |
| Mohamed BOUDHIRA | Faculty of Sciences Ibn Zohr University | Morocco | associate |
| Jess Broderick | SKAO | Australia | associate |
| Marcus Brueggen | University of Hamburg | Germany | associate |
| Sarah Burke-Spolaor | West Virginia University | USA | associate |
| Pedro R. Capelo | University of Zurich | Switzerland | associate |
| Carmelita Carbone | INAF – IASF Milan | Italy | associate |
| Francesco Carotenuto | INAF/OAR | Italy | associate |
| Chandrachur Chakraborty | Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, MAHE | India | associate |
| Poonam Chandra | NRAO | USA | associate |
| Pradip Kumar Chattopadhyay | Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University | India | associate |
| Jens Chluba | JBCA | UK | associate |
| Siyuan Chen | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | associate |
| Philippa Cole | University of Milano-Bicocca | Italy | associate |
| Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz | University of Cape Town | South Africa | associate |
| Lankeswar Dey | West Virginia University | USA | associate |
| Valentina Di Marco | Monash University | Australia | associate |
| Ulyana Dupletsa | Gran Sasso Science Institute | Italy | associate |
| Thomas Edwards | Netherlands | associate | |
| Matteo Fasiello | ICG Portsmouth | UK | associate |
| Rob Fender | Oxford | UK | associate |
| Daniele Gaggero | Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM, Madrid | Spain | associate |
| Jonathan Gair | AEI Potsdam | Germany | associate |
| Pratyasha Gitika | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia | associate |
| Dr. Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi | Dibrugarh University | India | associate |
| Cláudio Gomes | CF-UM-UP | Portugal | associate |
| Koushik Ballav Goswami | Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University | India | associate |
| Kelly Gourdji | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | associate |
| Kathrin Grunthal | MPI for Radio Astronomy, Bonn | Germany | associate |
| Sêcloka Lazare Guedezounme | University of the Western Cape (UWC) | South Africa | associate |
| Prabir Kumar Haldar | Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University | India | associate |
| Ian Harrison | University of Cardiff | UK | associate |
| Huanchen Hu | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Germany | associate |
| Alex Jenkins | King’s College London | UK | associate |
| Donghui Jeong | Penn State | USA | associate |
| Nayeli Marisol Jimenez Cruz | Swansea University | UK | associate |
| Dylan Jow | KIPAC, Stanford | Canada | associate |
| Mehedi Kalam | Aliah University, Kolkata | India | associate |
| Marc Kamionkowski | Johns Hopkins University | USA | associate |
| Bradley Kavanagh | IFCA | Spain | associate |
| S. Komossa | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie | Germany | associate |
| Ely Kovetz | Ben-Gurion University | Israel | associate |
| Atharva Kulkarni | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia | associate |
| Dhruv Kumar | National Institute of Technology Agartala | India | associate |
| Sangita Kumari | NCRA-TIFR | India | associate |
| Sachiko Kuroyanagi | Nagoya University | Japan | associate |
| Benjamin L'Huillier | Sejong University | South Korea | associate |
| Kristen Lackeos | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Germany | |
| Sarah Libaone | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Ameek Malhotra | Swansea University | UK | associate |
| Michele Mancarella | Centre de Physique Théorique, Aix-Marseille Université | France | associate |
| Antonino Marciano | Fudan University | China | associate |
| Sabino Matarrese | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Avery Meiksin | University of Edinburgh | UK | associate |
| Bradley Meyers | Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA) | Australia | associate |
| Michał Michałowski | Astronomical Observatory Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University | Poland | associate |
| Hannah Middleton | University of Birmingham | UK | associate |
| Matthew Miles | Swinburne University of Technology / OzGrav | Australia | associate |
| Prashanth Mohan | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | China | associate |
| Monmoy Molla | Aliah University | India | associate |
| Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi | University of Milano-Bicocca | Italy | associate |
| Rupak Mukherjee | Sikkim University | India | associate |
| Banibrata Mukhopadhyay | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | India | associate |
| Riccardo Murgia | SISSA | Italy | associate |
| Masum Murshid | Murarai Government Polytechnic | India | associate |
| Samaya Nissanke | University of Amsterdam (GRAPPA) | Netherlands | associate |
| Nelson Nunes | University of Lisbon | Portugal | associate |
| Zsolt Paragi | Jive | Netherlands | associate |
| David Parkinson | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) | Korea | associate |
| Roman Pasechnik | Lund University | Sweden | associate |
| Kerry Paterson | Northwestern University | USA | associate |
| Marco Peloso | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Angeles Perez-Garcia | University of Salamanca | Spain | associate |
| Antoine Petiteau | APC – University of Paris | France | associate |
| Xavier Pritchard | University of Sussex | UK | associate |
| Alvise Raccanelli | University of Padova | Italy | associate |
| Sohrab Rahvar | Sharif University of Technology | Iran | associate |
| Kaustubh Rajwade | University of Manchester | UK | associate |
| Lisa Randall | Harvard University | USA | associate |
| Liantsoa Finaritra Randrianjanahary | UKZN - UWC | South Africa | associate |
| Daniel Reardon | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia | associate |
| Tania Regimbau | LAPP Annecy | France | associate |
| Roberto Ricci | Tor Vergata University/INAF-IRA | Italy | associate |
| Angelo Ricciardone | INFN – Sezione di Padova | Italy | associate |
| Antonio Riotto | University of Geneva | Switzerland | associate |
| Kaustubh Rajwade | University of Manchester | UK | associate |
| Antonia Rowlinson | University of Amsterdam & ASTRON | Netherlands | associate |
| Mairi Sakellariadou | King’s College London | UK | associate |
| Salma Salhi | Université de Montréal | Canada | associate |
| Matteo Schulz | Gran Sasso Science Institute | Italy | associate |
| Alberto Sesana | Univerista` di Milano Bicocca | Italy | associate |
| Rahul Shah | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata | India | associate |
| Lijing Shao | Peking University | China | associate |
| Amit Shukla | Indian Institute of Technology Indore | India | associate |
| Joe Silk | IAP | France | associate |
| Vidit Singh | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai | India | associate |
| Samir Singla | Savitribai Phule Pune University | India | associate |
| Abhimanyu Susobhanan | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) | Germany | associate |
| Gianmassimo Tasinato | Swansea University | UK | associate |
| Abhishek Tiwari | Indian Institute of Science | India | associate |
| Eleonora Troja | University of Rome | Italy | associate |
| Caner Unal | Middle East Technical University | Turkey | associate |
| Lorenzo Valbusa Dall’Armi | Università degli Studi di Padova | Italy | associate |
| Bijendra Kumar Vishvakarma | Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India | India | associate |
| Zvonimir Vlah | University of Cambridge | UK | associate |
| Francesca Vidotto | Western Ontario | Canada | associate |
| Matteo Viel | SISSA | Italy | associate |
| Marta Volonteri | IAP | France | associate |
| Prajwal Voraganti Padmanabh | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI) | Germany | associate |
| Bojun Wang | NAOC | China | associate |
| Lin Wang | Peking University, KIAA | China | associate |
| Amanda Weltman | University of Cape Town | South Africa | associate |
| Christoph Weniger | University of Amsterdam (GRAPP) | Netherlands | associate |
| Jiangwei Xu | Peking University | China | associate |
| Xiao Xue | University of Hamburg | Germany | associate |
| Zihan Xue | Peking University | China | associate |
| Muskan Yadav | University of Rome Tor Vergata | India | associate |
| Yu-Wei Yu | Central China Normal University | China | associate |
| Wenfei Yu | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | China | associate |
| Philippa Hartley | SKAO | UK | Office contact |
Last modified on 20 February 2025